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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'meier AT ieh DOT etec DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de'" <meier AT ieh DOT etec DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de>,
        cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: bug, man, 1.5f, MANPATH with blanks
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:19:16 -0400
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 Seems that cygwin is bug-compatible with every other version of 'man' I can
find.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Meier [mailto:fmeier AT ifh DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch]
> Subject: bug, man, 1.5f, MANPATH with blanks
> with cygwin, I am using man, version 1.5f, man-page from 1995-09-02.
> 
> If the man path includes a directory with a blank, i. e. 
> '/tmp/a b/man'
> then the message 
> 
> fmeier AT LAETOP /d/Projects/PR970217 Larix
> $ man -M '/tmp/a b/man' mmp_m3d
> cd: can't cd to /tmp/a
> cat: /tmp/a: No such file or directory
> cat: /tmp/a: No such file or directory
> 
> appears.  Although it is a bad idea to include a blank in the name of
> a file or directory, this behaviour supprises me and I consider it a
> fault.

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